Trees being murdered right now

[Coventina]

Along my street.

The dumb city is chopping down all the beautiful cottonwoods that line our street.

I'm broken-hearted.

I hate people. People suck. The planet would be so much better off without us.

:cry:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

1. Watch out - the Ents are coming!

[Lavender Brown]

2. I'm sorry!

I hate to see that happening too.

[GOPisEvil]

3. Are they cotton-less cottonwoods?

I like the cottonwood tree, but I hate the cotton.

What's the reason given for chopping them down?

[sniffa]

4. they were a grave & gathering threat

with thoughts about acquiring the capabiLities to someday buiLd WMD's.

[Coventina]

6. Yes, they are the cotton-less kind

Or were!

:cry:

I'm guessing (only a guess) that it might be because it is the monsoon right now, and there are always some trees that get blown over or lose substantial branches. Since these trees were HUGE I'm wondering if the city doesn't want to risk one falling from city property onto someone's house.

Other than that, I don't know.

[GOPisEvil]

7. That's terrible!

Although, one of my neighbors is an original home owner from 1983. He said that the developers had planted cotton-less cottonwoods, but that all of them caught a disease and started dieing. The house on the other side of me has a regular cottonwood, and it's driving me batty.

Perhaps disease is the reason, though. :shrug:

[Coventina]

8. I hope so

It's easier to think of them being cut down because they're sick rather than because of stupid human risk assessors.

[rucky]

10. aaaah, more legislated neurosis

that's the new American way.

[Aftershock]

5. Oh why do they have to cut down trees?

I'm sure there's nothing wrong with them!

People don't want oxygen around, do they?

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Trees are the enemy!

They fall down and get in the way of traffic.

Birds sit in them and shit on your cars and your head.

It costs money to deal with the leaves every Fall.

They drop icky fruit and other stuff that ruins your shoes and mess up your car.

They get in the way of the cable guys.

They are a part of Nature that must be conquered and destroyed at all cost.


Sorry about your cottonwoods, but apparently someone was inconvenienced by nature again, and so they must die. Our convenience is everything, and let nature be damned. I imagine someone paid a bundle to plant those cottonwoods, but they have now outlived their usefulness.

At least around here many towns have ordinances that require a permit before you cut down a tree. One guy in Mountainside cut down a whole stand of trees in his front yard so he could get a better view of the NYC skyline, and it caused statewide outrage.

Developers, of course, are allowed to cut down acres of trees to build condos, but other than that we're pretty big on trees here. Cutting down a whole street of trees is pretty well unthinkable in most places, unless they're seriously diseased.

But, we're still killing the bears that can't find food after we cut down all those trees for condos.